Andrea Gail
E181607
The Andrea Gail was a commercial fishing vessel that tragically sank during the 1991 "Perfect Storm" in the North Atlantic, inspiring the book and film of the same name.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Andrea Gail canonical | 15 |
| Andrea Gail lost with all hands in 1991 | 1 |
| fishing vessel Andrea Gail | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1597460 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Andrea Gail Context triple: [The Perfect Storm, depicts, Andrea Gail]
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A.
Sea Venture
Sea Venture was the flagship of the Virginia Company fleet that was wrecked in Bermuda in 1609, an event that influenced the early history of English colonization in America and is often cited as an inspiration for Shakespeare’s "The Tempest."
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B.
Ever Given
Ever Given is a large container ship that gained worldwide attention in March 2021 when it became wedged in the Suez Canal, disrupting global shipping traffic.
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C.
Henrietta
Henrietta is a feminine given name of English origin, historically popular in the 18th and 19th centuries and borne by several notable figures.
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D.
M/V Lituya
M/V Lituya is a small Alaska Marine Highway System ferry that primarily serves short-haul routes in Southeast Alaska.
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E.
Seabreeze
Seabreeze was a former neighboring city to Daytona Beach, Florida, that was eventually incorporated into the larger Daytona Beach municipality.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Andrea Gail Target entity description: The Andrea Gail was a commercial fishing vessel that tragically sank during the 1991 "Perfect Storm" in the North Atlantic, inspiring the book and film of the same name.
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A.
Sea Venture
Sea Venture was the flagship of the Virginia Company fleet that was wrecked in Bermuda in 1609, an event that influenced the early history of English colonization in America and is often cited as an inspiration for Shakespeare’s "The Tempest."
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B.
Ever Given
Ever Given is a large container ship that gained worldwide attention in March 2021 when it became wedged in the Suez Canal, disrupting global shipping traffic.
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C.
Henrietta
Henrietta is a feminine given name of English origin, historically popular in the 18th and 19th centuries and borne by several notable figures.
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D.
M/V Lituya
M/V Lituya is a small Alaska Marine Highway System ferry that primarily serves short-haul routes in Southeast Alaska.
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E.
Seabreeze
Seabreeze was a former neighboring city to Daytona Beach, Florida, that was eventually incorporated into the larger Daytona Beach municipality.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Andrea Gail Description of subject: The Andrea Gail was a commercial fishing vessel that tragically sank during the 1991 "Perfect Storm" in the North Atlantic, inspiring the book and film of the same name.
Referenced by (17)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Andrea Gail
linked to: Andrea Gail
subject linked to:
Captain William "Billy" Tyne Jr.
subject linked to:
sister ship Hannah Boden
subject linked to:
sister ship Hannah Boden